Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Successful people understand the value of time. Once they commit to doing something, they would never cancel.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

I don't have a good work ethic. I have a real casual relationship with hours.

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.

I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

I always got my work done before playing.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Every day carries with it a responsibility.

When you have to stay late, you stay late, and when you don't have to stay late, you go home. But, you do whatever it takes to get the job done that day.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

When you got something you gotta do in your career, you do it. When you get home, and there's work to be done, you do that. It's all about balance.

I know when I make a decision, I'm increasing my own personal work day.

Work is hard, and jobs can be dull. But you can't just take a holiday when you feel like it. You turn up because it is the right thing to do.

That's just the way life is. We have to be willing to pay the price. You have to be willing to pay the price for what's right - and for what we do wrong. That's one of the things that I love about my son. My son was always willing to take his weight.

I have a terrible work ethic. The best way for me to do anything in life is for someone to say, 'You need to do this by this time, or you're in trouble'.

Coming from college, where they tell you exactly what you have to do, and they tell you have to be at this at this time, you kind of get punishment for that. Now you're in the NFL, and you have to do it on your own.

I have to work hard and organize myself so that I'm present and not a slacker.

Intention without action is an insult to those who expect the best from you.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

People who know me well have learned to insist that I commit to obligations by opening my laptop and putting them onto the appropriate calendar or list - a verbal agreement and a promise to remember won't work.

My motto in life is 'if you give 100 per cent then no one can ask any more'.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.